Williams v. Hawley

This is an appeal from an order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial. "The action is to enforce an alleged lien upon a mining claim belonging to the defendant, for services as a watchman, alleged to have been performed by the plaintiff for the defendant, amounting to the sum of six hundred and thirty-seven dollars.

The defendant attempts to raise the point that a person engaged as a watchman of a mine is not performing “labor in any mining claim” so as to be entitled to a lien under section 1183 of the Code of Civil Procedure, although the work of mining therein or development…